November 14, 2011 - WingTip, along with Canary Labs and Kepware, introduced hBOX, a wireless severe duty historian appliance. The hBOX combines low cost with enterprise class historian performance in a ready to use appliance. A member of the PlantMESH 802.11b/g/n Ethernet wireless mesh network system, the hBOX is ready for outdoor or indoor use. The primary goal in developing the hBOX was to provide an operational historian appliance that could be located directly adjacent to the equipment being monitored, rather than using a centralized historian that attempts to capture data over a remote Wide Area Network (WAN) connection.
“Most of the geographically distributed industries, such as oil and gas, mining and utilities need to collect data from remotely located equipment. In many cases, the connection to the remotely connected equipment is bandwidth limited and can have reliability issues," McKay said. Ideally, data loss could be eradicated by collecting the data locally, then synchronizing the data to the central historian, a scenario also known as 'Store and Forward' data collection.
WingTip LLC, founded in 2006, provides best-of-breed solutions for plant wireless networking and security, real time performance improvement, smart grid, and automation device change management.
Kepware Technologies, established in 1995, develops a wide range of communication and interoperability software solutions for the Automation industry. Kepware Technologies' mission is to be “Your Standard for Connectivity.”
Since 1985, Canary Labs has been focused on delivering best in class historian trending tools and solutions on a global scale. We believe our success is driven by focus on developing solutions from the end user’s perspective, with scale in mind.
